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382 TARQUINII.—The Citt. chap, xix.]
cliffs, which are crowned by the many towers of Corneto.
The lofty hare height to the west is Monte Quagliero, part
of the ancient necropolis ; the line of trees in the inter-
vening hollow marks the course of the Marta; and
stretching away over a tract of level shore, the eye reaches
the broad blue of the Mediterranean, and travels on to the
graceful headland of Monte Argentaro, to the Griglio and
Giannuti, its islet satellites, and if the weather be clear, to
the peaks of Elba, dim and grey on the blue horizon.
From this quarter round again to the south stretches the
wide sweep of the Etruscan plain, broken and undulating
—no longer here richly wooded as in days of yore,9 but
for the most part naked and barren; with the dark crests
of the Canino mountains on the north; the giant mass of
Santa Piora, a wedge of snow, towering behind; Monte
Fiascone rising like a long wave in the north-east; the
loftier double-peaked Ciminian at its side; and, bounding
the view to the south, the long, serrated, and forested
range of the Alumieri, sinking to the sea at Civita Vecchia.
On the way from this point eastward to a lofty part of the
ridge several remains are passed—here mere substructions,
there fragments of walling—here a well, there a vault
opening in the slope. Still more numerous are such vestiges
on the summit of this height, which seems to have been
the Arx of Tarquinii. Here are nothing but substructions,
yet the outline of several buildings may be traced,10—pos-
sibly temples of the three great Divinities, Jupiter, Juno,
9 Stat. Sylv. V. 2, 1 ; Varro, de Re proached, but more probably so placed
Rust. III. 12. The latter writer speaks for the sake of a firmer foundation,
of a park here, stocked with wild animals, Manzi and Fossati, who excavated here,
not only deer, roebuck, and hares, but first took these substructions to be part
also wild sheep. of a pyramidal sepulchre (Bull. Inst.1829,
10 On the side facing the Montarozzi, p. 199 ; 1830, p. 73) ; but afterwards
the blocks are arranged in terraces down (1831, p. 4) acknowledged that this was
the slope, possibly the steps by which the citadel.
the superincumbent buildings were ap-
cliffs, which are crowned by the many towers of Corneto.
The lofty hare height to the west is Monte Quagliero, part
of the ancient necropolis ; the line of trees in the inter-
vening hollow marks the course of the Marta; and
stretching away over a tract of level shore, the eye reaches
the broad blue of the Mediterranean, and travels on to the
graceful headland of Monte Argentaro, to the Griglio and
Giannuti, its islet satellites, and if the weather be clear, to
the peaks of Elba, dim and grey on the blue horizon.
From this quarter round again to the south stretches the
wide sweep of the Etruscan plain, broken and undulating
—no longer here richly wooded as in days of yore,9 but
for the most part naked and barren; with the dark crests
of the Canino mountains on the north; the giant mass of
Santa Piora, a wedge of snow, towering behind; Monte
Fiascone rising like a long wave in the north-east; the
loftier double-peaked Ciminian at its side; and, bounding
the view to the south, the long, serrated, and forested
range of the Alumieri, sinking to the sea at Civita Vecchia.
On the way from this point eastward to a lofty part of the
ridge several remains are passed—here mere substructions,
there fragments of walling—here a well, there a vault
opening in the slope. Still more numerous are such vestiges
on the summit of this height, which seems to have been
the Arx of Tarquinii. Here are nothing but substructions,
yet the outline of several buildings may be traced,10—pos-
sibly temples of the three great Divinities, Jupiter, Juno,
9 Stat. Sylv. V. 2, 1 ; Varro, de Re proached, but more probably so placed
Rust. III. 12. The latter writer speaks for the sake of a firmer foundation,
of a park here, stocked with wild animals, Manzi and Fossati, who excavated here,
not only deer, roebuck, and hares, but first took these substructions to be part
also wild sheep. of a pyramidal sepulchre (Bull. Inst.1829,
10 On the side facing the Montarozzi, p. 199 ; 1830, p. 73) ; but afterwards
the blocks are arranged in terraces down (1831, p. 4) acknowledged that this was
the slope, possibly the steps by which the citadel.
the superincumbent buildings were ap-